Originally Posted by
Fgrosoli
I have to say, I'm very mad about it. I was specifically told training was in a single bedroom room and now training department informed me will be double occupancy. This was one of the selling pitch presented to us at recluting and to be honest it was appealing. At 45 I'm well pass a room mate unless she is under 30 and smoking hot...
Anyway will see what happens in a week when I show up .
And if I have a room mate I will be sorry for him.... I snore like a motherf.....
Fight it, when you show back up go tall to BW, put your foot down and just tell them its a deal breaker and you are going to EV, they need pilots, they’ll cave. They first started trying this in the hiring boom last year, on interview day students were being told single occupancy then they were told double when they showed up again. I flew with one guy who was your age and he and his sim partner were both prior 121 had been in the industry for years. They tried to pull this on their class of mostly CFI’s who were afraid to rock the boat but these 2 old-timers didn’t give 2 cents, they went to BW and said single room or they were out and they all got them, even the newbies who never complained. Now if they told you at interview, you don’t have much fight because you accepted. But if they told you single, then you need to hold them to it! They are trying to see who’s gullible enough to take it.
Also, to those of us on here who keep talking about sucking it up because you had to buy a room, pay for training, walk to work, whatever, ENOUGH, drop it. I get it, it was different years ago, we were paid fractions less, did not get hotels, maybe some paid for training, phones used to have cords, etc. but its not years ago, its present day, and new hires have the right to expect industry standard. They have every right to be put off by this IF they were being told otherwise and I believe it that they were because again I’ve heard it before, lure them in with that nice extra perk, then change it on them once you feel they are on the hook, not cool.
All that to say, welcome to CP, we are all very excited to have you! This post is not meant to be negative or deter new pilots, and I certainly hope none of you bail based on the rooms but I do sympathize with you. I’m just trying to make the point that you need to learn to put your foot down NOW or the company will walk all over you and that has nothing to do with CP or TSH, its the airlines. You give any airline an inch, they will try to take a mile, thats why we have unions.
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